As fate would have it, this years Tech Team, provided by last year’s winner, Chips Ahoy! had a full playing roster. Therefore no loopholing possible, including picking a straight captain, so some very similar scores to kick off.
Chips, Tech Ninjas and Alza all chose Darcy Parish as their “C” and played Jack Hayes to score 1984. Gumbies and the ever consistent Ninius round out the top five with scores of 1977 and 1972 respectively.
For those of you not in our three leagues, I’ve included a snapshot to give you an idea of what we had first up. Be interesting to see where the trades go and when they will start. Let us know your thoughts coaches.
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Be tempting to move some duds on before round two. Rozee, Ralphsmith, Weller, Thomas and McInerney all underwhelming for the dollars.
I Played the long strategic game last year and got nowhere, so it might be time for a different approach. I do, however, think each of those folks named is far more capable of better scores and so will not be too gung ho in pulling the trigger early.
Hmmm, we’ll see?
Trades made already! NOt sure if I was able to make the side register in the second league mate … was working so only saw your message very late … SC site was still locked out … but not sure it registered me …
Showing 18 in the summary, but only 17 when you look down the ladder. Thanks for trying, time will tell.
I wonder if many will use the trade boost round 2 to make corrections for many of the dud round 1 mid pricers
Good morning all,
As coach of the Gumbies, it is my first appearance in the Top 5 overall in Tech League after many attempts (a couple of years’ break prior to this season). I’m pretty tempted to just delete my team here and call it a resoundingly successful season! 😉
In considering my trades, I first want to acknowledge the awesome team that Chips Ahoy has put together – there are no outright dummies in the lineup and some very interesting PODs in there. Previous seasons the first few trades have been burned trying to get some playing rookies and turn around some quick cash generating players. This year we have a balance between tweaking our top end premos to make sure we have a decent Captain choice(s) each week, tuning the mid-priced madness (loving Lipinski POD) and maximising our rookies.
I’m looking at the top end of town first to allow some better Captain choices … even though Danger is now a real candidate that I hadn’t considered prior to Round 1.
I’m also toying with the idea of burning a Trade Boost early to get a bit of a move on. But unsure that I need to do that yet.
-Alex
I can see many potentially trying to get in Rowell/Neale but with no mid DPP who would have to go?
Ward seems likely but 1-2 downgrades to McInerney or the forward line would be required for that
Tech team was crushing my actual team until Sunday and the spuds Thomas, Rozee and Weller – my first crack at this and since it’s total points, surely the strategy should be go hard early?
I’m planning for 3 trades this round and 3 next round then sit on the team for a while before upgrades can start – there’s plenty of C choices in this side and cash gen already so my trades will all be getting in guys that I want in my final team
Enjoying this already, thanks again for organising Jimmy and good luck coaches
Welcome aboard SGN, and my thoughts exactly.
….and with the rule we should be able to use all the boosts whenever we want….LOL.
‘might just use mine, oops, i mean grand kids (1) to DPP the mids this week……hmmm
ps Go the West End Bombers!!!!
Very well done on the team making this season. Having a good set of rookies with the rest of the team filled with The Dodgy leaves what to do wide open. Of course the who needs out and who needs in do not match up well position wise. I’m not sure there are any 100% obvious moves.
I dub this style of team building Spuds and Rookies.
Looking forward to another year of Tech League!
The idea this year was two fold: pick all the PODs that got some attention on SCT (Ryan, Dale, Parish, Marshall, Thomas etc.), plus have each side represented, to create interest when watching the games.
Some have noticed a couple of strategic moves as well. Firstly, no DPP in the mids to make obvious swaps difficult (ie: Neale or an Uber-captain). And secondly, a full ruck line to prevent Grundy or Gawn from walking in as perma-captains.
Good luck everyone! Weller on the chopping block I think.
Using the boost straight up. Looking to do a mid price downgrade to a rookie and two upgrades of mid-pricers I don’t like up to trustable premiums. I’ve finished bottom couple last two years of Tech and need to do something about it this year so going hard early.